cherimoyan.
/tʃɛrɪˈmɔɪə/ 1. A small tree ( Anona cherimolia), a native of Peru, with sweet-scented greenish flowers.
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1736 Bouguer's Voy. Peru in Pinkerton Voy. XIV. 299 The tree which produces the most delicious fruit that I am acquainted with..is called Chirimoya.
1779 Mrs. Boscawen in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 488 The fragrant Chirimoya.
2. The pulpy fruit of this tree, highly esteemed on account of its delicious flavour. It is of considerable size, irregularly heart-shaped, with a scaly exterior.
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1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. I. v. vii. 298 The chirimoya is universally allowed to be the most delicious of any known fruit.
1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 28 That delicious fruit of the Peruvians called Cherimoyer.
1862 C. R. Markham Trav. Peru & India 337 He who has not tasted the chirimoya has yet to learn what fruit is.
1864 Reader 23 Jan. 102 ‘Cherimoya’, corrupted in the British colonies into ‘Cherimoyer’.
1887 Standard 16 Sept. 5/2 The cherimoyer, a near relation of the sweep sop, the sour sop, and the custard apple..is..sent..from Madeira.
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